ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

IF SPACE PERMITTED, it would be appropriate to thank everyone who lives in or loves Provincetown. I must, however, limit myself to the people who read this book in manuscript, and helped me with the prose and the facts. I extend my particular thanks to Mark Adams, Janet Biehl, Ken Corbett, Melanie Braverman, Mary DeAngelis, Dennis Dermody, John Dowd, Marie Howe, Anne Lord, Mark McCauslin, Molly Perdue, Sal Randolph, Marian Roth, Ellen Rousseau, and James Shannon.

I also relied on the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum for information about Provincetown’s past, and am particularly grateful to Jeffory Morris, the curator there. I also referred to Provincetown as a Stage by Leona Rust Egan, Time and the Town by Mary Heaton Vorse, and Tony Vevers’s essays in the catalog of the Permanent Collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.

Doug Pepper, my editor, was a writer’s dream come true. And I am always indebted to Gail Hochman, Meg Giles, and Marianne Merola.